What We Do

·         Artist-in-Residence:  NC artists spend a week in the schools, giving students a hands-on art experience.

·         School Performance Series: Every county student attends a live, professional performance annually, featuring multi-cultural music, theatre, opera, storytelling and dance.

·         Take Art to Heart:  Volunteers present monthly art lessons to first, second and fifth grade students.

·         Student Art Show: Students, grades K through 12, proudly exhibit their art work at the TC Arts Gallery.

·      Summer Art Camp: More than 80 children find creative expression through painting, pottery and dance.

What You Can Do

Join our campaign to provide theater, music, opera, dance and week-long residencies in county schools. Your donation of $200 enables TCArts to reach an entire classroom of young people for one year.

Arts in the Schools depends on you. We hope you will be generous in supporting this important aspect of our mission to celebrate and nurture the creative spirit in our county.

Why Arts Programming is Essential for Young Students

·         Art helps students make new connections and think “outside the box.”

·         Expression in the arts helps students develop cognitive and physical skills.

·         Each art form brings special ways of perceiving the world, utilizing critical thinking and problem solving skills.

·         The arts help transform the school environment to one of discovery and learning.

·         Art criticism helps students develop observation and analytical skills that can be transferred to other areas of study.

·         The arts are essential to an understanding of personal, local, national and global cultures, past and present.